Wagon-cover.



No. 632,578. Patented $6 1. 5, I899.

L. N. LEONARD.

WAGON COVER.

(Application flied June 27, 1899.)

(No Model.)

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lJNiTED STATES PATENT OEEIcE.

LOUIS N. LEONARD, OF BUTTE, MONTANA.

WAGON-=COVER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 632,578, dated September 5, 1899.

Application filed Tune 27, 1899. Serial No. 722,061. (No model.)

T0 at whmn it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS N. LEONARD, a citizen of the United States, residing at Butte city, in the county of Silver Bow and State of Montana, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in \Vagon-Covers; and I do declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of theinvention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

The invention relates to wagons.

The object of the invention is to provide a shield or guard for the body portion of the wagon to protect the goods being hauled from rain, snow, and the like and at the same time afford ready access.

\Vith this object in View the invention consists in certain features of construction and combination of parts, which will be hereinafter fully described and claimed.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of a wagon embodying my invention. Fig. 2 is a sectional view through a portion of the side of the wagon, illustrating the engagement of the spring-tongue therewith for the purpose of holding the shield or guard in place against the action of wind, which might get under the shield or guard and tend to lift it.

Like characters of reference indicate like parts in the several views.

1 denotes the wagon-body, having secured to its sides at opposite points brackets 2, provided with perforated ears 3.

4. denotes the rear U -shaped frame,the members of which are provided with lateral studs 5, that project through the apertures in said brackets, one of said studs being formed with a handle 6. 7 denotes an arched bar or rod connected to the sides of said U -shaped frame.

8 denotes the forward U shaped frame, provided with laterally-projecting studs journaled in the apertures of the brackets. One of said studs terminates in an operating-handle 9.

1O denotes an arched bar or rod connected to the forward U-shaped frame.

11 denotes a piece of waterproof material having its opposite ends connected to the U- shaped frames and supported intermediate its ends by the arched bars. This waterproof fabric is of a sufiicient width to extend from side to side of the wagon-body.

One of the side pieces of each of the U- shaped frames is provided with a springton gne 13,which is adapted to engage the sides of the wagon and form a frictional contact to resist the action of wind should it get under the shield or guard, and thus prevent the same being raised and the contents of the wagonbody exposed to the weather.

Vhen it is desired to remove any of the articles from the wagon, if the article be at the forward end the forward U-shaped frame is elevated and if the article be at the rear end the rear U shaped frame is elevated, the raising of the two frames being accomplished by operating the handles.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed, and desired to be secured by Letters Patent, is

The combination with a wagon-body provided with bearing brackets, U shaped frames extending entirely across the wagonbody and having their ends journaled in said brackets, arched bars connecting the sides of each U-shaped frame, a waterproof material having its ends connected to the U-shaped frames and extending entirely across the wagon-body, and spring-tongues carried by the sides of the U-shaped frames for engaging the sides of the wagon-body, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand in presence of two subscribing witnesses.

LOUIS N. LEONARD. Witnesses:

MIKE DONLAN, A. L. SLATER. 

